1892
Built as ZOE by Richardson, Duck & Co., Stockton, England for
Burdick & Cook, London, England. Launched 28/05, completed in June.
1912 Sold to Dampskibsselskabet A/S Laly (C. T. Gogstad & Co.),
Kristiania. Renamed LEKA.
1917 Torpedoed and sunk 24/09 by the German submarine UC 71
(Oberleutnant zur See Ernst Steindorff) off Flamborough Head,
England whilst on a voyage from Santander, Spain to Sunderland, England
with iron ore. 17 men lost. Only 2 men survived. They entered a raft and
were later same day picked up by an English minesweeper and landed the
same evening in Grimsby, England.